So here it goes, my firs blog post in English. Reason being is that a lot of people on the QNAP and Plex user forum have requested more inputs regarding the matter i am going to write about.
I have been a windows home server user for many years. When Windows home server (WHS) came along it had a built in duplication method for data redundancy, this was removed in Windows Home server 2011, but third party applications later came with similar functionality. The duplication method meant that you would create a pool of hard drives effectively halfing your storage pool capacity for backup, At the time i didn't have a lot of data on the server, so that wasn't a problem for me. Media files have grown in size by time as HD became a standard and 4K resolution is going to take over.